User talk:Villagelynx

October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external link you added to the pages Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax Regional Municipality do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ckatz^chat _spy 08:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Your note on my tal page. Sorry, but the links don't qualify under the external links guidelines. Thanks for noting the other ones at the Halifax article - I'll check them over and remove them if they fail as well. --Ckatz^chat _spy 16:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. - I've requested deletion for your comment at Talk:Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax Regional Municipality. That has nothing to do with the comment itself; the problem is that you've created a talk page where no corresponding article exists. The comment should probably go on the talk pages of the respective articles, although I'm certain that you will get a similar response from other editors. --Ckatz^chat _spy 16:11, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of your note

I've copied your text here so that it isn't lost when the page is deleted. --Ckatz^chat _spy 16:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC) ___[reply]

I would like to have the links re-added to the external links section of the pages for Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax Regional Municipality.

These sites are travel and information portals for these respective cities. I believe these sites meet the linking criteria. In fact I know they meet the criteria because there are other links from sister sites on Wikipedia.

These sites are considered valuable online resources and already have links from municipal government sites, Canadian University libraries, airports, etc.. The database listings on these websites are free. There is a minimum amount of direct advertising.

I would also argue that these sites have at least the relative importance of current existing links.

Therefore could you please re-add these links.

Thank you for your consideration.

FYI, please note that there is a duplicated link on the Halifax Regional Municipality page.

Villagelynx 15:08, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]